Piers Akerman

Piers Akerman
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Sunday,
February,
03,
2008,(9:48am)

AUSTRALIANS were warned before the last election that the contest was not a beauty competition.

Yet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has exhibited all the hallmarks of a brainless beauty queen ever since, with his vacuous endorsement of the meaningless Kyoto Protocols, and his gallop to claim moral superiority over the previous Australian government with a pledge to say sorry to a group of Australians, self-described as the Stolen Generations, in a yet-to-be revealed form of words on behalf of the current government.

Profile

Piers has been one of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's best-read columnists since 1993. One of the nation's most respected journalists he has worked in New York, London, Washington and Los Angeles.